Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-15

-A'0 uaoSAOuCi, fllLCI expressing 6J
pathy and promising what relief the office
! can grant, says:
Settlers who are obliged to leave THEN
! claims On account Of the drouth should BE-
| prepared to account for their absence from
this cause when they made final proof
but in such case proof should not be offer
cd until the law has been fully complied
with after their return to the land. Alb
sence on account of climate reasons viii
not imperil tile claims If the fact is estab
i1shed when proof is made and il proof il
| not attempted to be made in advance O.
the time when the residence, improve
ments and cultivation required by law
can be satisfactorily shown.
The advance Of IS cents ton on hare
coal July 1 has started good deal O.
thinking among the large consumers O.
Chicago.
The death OF Ohm A. Winter, OF Denver
president Of the Percheron Norman Horse
company, and one OF the most prominent
citizens OF the state OF Colorado, was an
nounced as the result of catarrh OF the
stomach. 1t is now charged that Mr.. Win
ter's death was caused from arsenica
poisoning, and that there has been a crime
committed
Under proposals opened by Col. C. B,
Penrose, chief co1nmissary OF the depart
ment OF Dakota, awards were made as fol
lows: John s. Friedman, 1900 pounds
81 hsrd bread: Henry Doerr, IS, 600 cigars
IT, f. kuhles, 80, 900 cigars; G. r. Mon.
fort, $4,000 cigars; Adam Fetsch, 10000
cigars. Mr.. James McKenna, who has been
clerk in the quartermaster department
Tor thirty-two years, resigned his position
at the army
The prisoner arrested in Lansing, Mich,
as Henry McMunn or Matt Kennedy, who
was implicated in the Cleveland fur rob
berry, claims to bs Jessie B. Lamb, farm
hand, and to have no connection with the
murder OF Hulligan. The Chicago police
think that he is not the guilty man.
The strikers OF Uniontown, Pa., resent
the introduction OF Pinkerton detectives
In that town for ths protection OF non
union men
The Metropolitan hotel OF St. Paul il
sold at auction to Kalman K Benz fo1
$64, 0OO Its original cost was $165, 600
DR.. McGlynn has been elected delegate
to the National United Labor convention
at Syracuse, N. Y, Aug. 16.
The town OF Clarendon, Pa, is destroyed
by an incendiary fire and hotel pro
prietor is arrested as the offender.
Judge Tovey of Louisville, KY, has sol.
EMMY decided that a widower isn't obliged
to maintain his mother in-!aw.
SirDonald Smith has given 81, 900 sill
yer challenge cup to be rowed for by four.
Dared crews of the Northwestern Rowine
association.
William Turl, Philadelphia bookkeep
er, has skipped with 81, 900 OF his employ
er's money.
Nellie Case aged IS, OF Waterbury
Conn. pointed a pistol at a. friend 'anG
then at herself. The last time it went off
and now Nellie is dead.
The resemblance to g. New York bank
robber said to have caused a prominen,
physician to be sentenced to State prison
in New York.
On Cherry creek, Madison county. Mont
during the storm William Hunt and his
horse were both killed by lightning. Hunts
clothes were nearly all burned.
In the first six months of 1886, 14e, 7O7
immigrants arrived in N. Y; firstsix months
OF 1887, 212, 655. For the whole year o.
1886 there were landed at Castle Garden
300, 91S immigrants.
William Burriss, attorney at Buckeye
City, Ohio, was shot and killed by lack
Hibbitts. The killing was the result Of ar
OAu ltOu 11IUDlUUS W as dEreSICu ana 1alkeC
at Mount Vernon. -
Mr.. Powderly, in speech at Scranton
Pa, said there was too much indiscriminate
every Immigrant should be able to show
that he was self supporting for one yea1
before landing on these shores. RI -
Prof. Charles H. Grimley, accompanied
by a newspaper reporter, made g. balloon
ascension from Lincoln Park, Portland
Me. At q height OF 3, 900 feet the balloon
struck a westerly current and was carried
swiftly out to sea. An attempt was made
to land on one of the islands in the shar
Dor, but without avail and the balloon de.
scended three miles from shore in Casco
bay. The men were dragged through the
water at a rapid rate for two miles when
they were rescued in an exhausted condi
ton by the crew OF a yacht.
During drill OF sappers at Jasz. Bereny,
capital OF Jaszygia. Hungary, dynamite
twenty seven men and injuring iorty-eight
others. OF the killed four were officers
The soldiers were being drilled in the use Of
explosives. The ;nstructing officer threw
away u lighted fuse;7 which fell upon q pack.
ct OF dynamite. Many OF the injured sol.
der it il feared will die.
Three hundred and fifty new money or
der Offices have been established by the
postmaster general. The following are
among them: Dakota: Armour, Eden,
Ellendale, Hartford, Leola, Mapleton,
Minewaukan Minot, Montrose. Pine Ridge
agency, Roscoe. Iowa: Amish, Brooks,
Clarksville, Clear6eld, Donnelson, Elma,
Grant City, Pedrick, Botsein, Lehigh, Lo.
villa, Maurice, North Washington. Sum.
ner, Troy. Wayland. Minnesota: Ralston,
Battle Lake. Birch, Cooley, Brandon, Glib.
bon, Milan, Minnesota, Park Rapids, St.
Anthony Park, Winsted, Wisconsin,: Boil
{ tonyille, Cashton, Hortonville, Hurley,
Marion, Pittsville, West Superior, Mon.
tana: Anaconda, Big Timber, Cooke, Cor.
ham, Granite, lewiston. r. : -.
A civil service examination OF classes
two and three 81. 400 and 81, 6o0) for
prom lions in the surgeon-general's Office,
war department., has been ordered io1
Wednesday, July Is, next There are SO
clerks OF these grades to be examined.
The wooden man of-war Iroquois, third
rate, commanded by Richard r. Leary,
was Mt Panama May ~, and q communi.
cation was sent to the navy department
very bad. The vessel will probably be con.
Il demned. ss. 1T 1879 ~ ISL 5$as}ss IS
The following patents have been issued:
Minneso ta-H. NJ. Bailey, Fairwater, land
roller; Elizabeth Fowble, ST. Paul, cult
nary apparatus; E. Haake. Winona. end.
gate; J. Z. Mcdonald, Shakopee, com ined
fire escape, fire extinguisher and elevator;
]. Waters, Minneapolis, steam generator;
4 N. =. Whitney, Minneapolis, combined en-.
svelope and tag. Wisconsin N. H. Ben.
ton. and 81. J.. Godding Madison, sulky
harrow w. D. Hunt, Brandon, end-gate;
re. q. Stelier, Milwaukee, knob attachment;
4 u, "A. Walsh, Milwaukee, sheet metal vessel;
q Wilbur, Palmyra, churn. DakOta-J
s. Madison, pad for horse COLLARS; w III.
{ Robinson, Fargo. suspension harness rack;
e. r Roster, Sioux Falls. flax seed and
grain separator. III
Nearly 500 Pinkerton and other detect
ives will be distributed about the Pennsyl I